FANTASY

Hah! With a title like that can you imagine who will come to visit!?!

My neighbor, "M", just came back from a visit with her son and daughter-in-law. Her daughter-in-law is a graphic artist who does all those touch-ups to make people look wonderful in magazine pictures.

The day after M got home, she came to visit our new kittens. While she was here she told Erin and me about the things her daughter-in-law was doing. If a hand looks funny, she takes it out and puts in a new one. Extra fat? Trim it down as easy as one, two, three! A picture of a family and one of the kids doesn't look right? Just erase him or her from view! See some goose bumps on an arm? One swoop and they are gone! Facial blemishes just don't exist in the world of the magazine people! M said that you hear that these things can be done, but to actually see the extent of what they do is incredible!

I'm very glad that Erin was there to hear about these things. She will know that she doesn't have to live up to the pictures she sees in magazines. What about the rest of the kids out there that don't really understand? I see a future of nips and tucks, peels and make-up. Ending with unhappiness because I don't think even a surgeon can compete with a graphic artist!